3063 The Grand Finale 30 (1/2)

Dozen of vicious eyes continued to linger on them, but Gu Xijiu remained nonchalant.

The group of demonic ladies then fixed their eyes on Di Fuyi and softly said, ”Fuyi, I did not know that you are the Master of the Heavenly Law. Fan Qianshi never mentioned a word about it!”

Oddly only one voice was heard, even though all of them were talking. The hidden bitterness in her voice echoed in everyone's ears.

About a hundred volunteers showed up. More than half were men. Although they had seen many beautiful women before, the lady's charm remained irresistible. Her voice still managed to play tricks on their minds and misled them with an overwhelming sentiment to sympathize with her.

Only Di Fuyi remained calm. His fingers moved in swift motions to start gathering seven-colored rays on his palm.

”Fuyi, now that you have awakened to your hidden identity, I assume that you have also recalled your memory. You should be guilty of breaking up our relationship as master and disciple. My immortalization would not have come so soon if you had not been so stubborn.” The lady in white stared at him tearfully and continued, ”Are you going to hurt me again?” She expressed her bitterness over what Di Fuyi had done.

Misled by her psychological tricks, many sympathized with her difficult situation. Something had clearly gone terribly wrong at this point. These men had experienced many different tricks in their lives, both physiologically and strategically. They knew that their mood was not stable, but they could not control the sympathy that they had for the lady's sufferings.

The lady started to cry, which prompted some of the men to cry along as well. Those with weaker mental strength could not escape their fate of being manipulated. Uncontrollably, they began interceding with Di Fuyi on the lady's behalf.

Di Fuyi looked at the ladies fixedly, feigning indifference. The seven-colored ray in his palm seemed to have grown weaker.

At that time, the group of ladies took a chance and stepped forward. ”Fuyi, are you going to let history repeat itself? Are you going to kill me once more?”

Although quiet at first, Di Fuyi finally answered, ”I am not going to kill you just once.” This was the first statement that he made as the Master of the Heavenly Law. Instead of sounding threatening, he spoke in a very soft-spoken and courteous manner. Gu Xijiu's heart skipped a beat when she heard him speaking with such a gentle, quiet voice.

”Fuyi, I knew it,” the ladies responded delightfully.

To their disappointment, a dozen streaks of seven-colored rays were abruptly launched at the ladies, all at once. It was an improvised attack that the ladies did not see coming. Meanwhile, Di Fuyi's firm voice could be heard echoing in the air, ”I am going to kill you a dozen times!”

The dazzling streaks of light surrounded the ladies in a brilliant bubble. They started shrieking in agony, almost instantaneously. Instead of sounding like a woman, their long, high-pitched cries were actually a combination of sounds from many different men and women. The deafening noise came as a wake-up call for all the immortals that were initially manipulated.

As soon as the seven-colored light faded away, the group of ladies disappeared as well.

Nevertheless, the shrieks from before had sent cold chills down everyone's spine. Finally, they were fully conscious.

Di Fuyi did not stop. With a spell, he turned streaks of seven-colored rays into countless shinning knives. With his instruction, the knives seemed to cut their way deep into the depths of the desert.

The crowd noticed that the violent storm began to lose its power as if the penetrating knives had punctured it.

”Di Fuyi, you are such a callous man!” A lady could be heard screaming from within the desert with a voice filled with both bitterness and anger.

”I have always been insensitive and cruel, haven't you known?” Di Fuyi immediately cast another spell. ”Don't bother taking up more forms of your same old self. No matter how many show up, I will destroy them all.”

He then waved at the turbulent storms and tore the desert apart, revealing the resentful spirits within that were moving violently in a circular motion.

Everyone could finally see what the desert actually looked like from the inside. It was all but a horrifying sight. They had never seen so many resentful spirits at once.

The presence of the spirits caused the surrounding temperature to drop sharply, thus freezing everything and everyone who was standing in close proximity. Therefore, the immortals quickly cast a protective layer to keep the cold away. Right after the layer was made, it was instantaneously turned into ice, showing how close they were to become an ice sculpture.

Before the desert was torn apart to reveal what was inside, the whole place was as hot as a frying pan. In fact, the heat was unbearable. But now, it was so cold that even the immortals kept shivering.

It was not the kind of cold that they had experienced during the winter. The temperature here was piercing cold to the point where even the Monster King had to take out a big fur coat to keep himself warm. Everyone else did the same.

Unfortunately, the mussel's shells were not enough to keep the cold away. ”Cold. So cold,” it said in a trembling voice.

A thick coat was sent over to the mussel to wrap it up comfortably, and soon enough, the mussel was no longer feeling cold. It raised its head from the coat, only to realize that Gu Xijiu and Di Fuyi were both gone.

”Master!” It was puzzled and worried.

Long Siye explained, ”Don't worry. She is now in the desert, along with the Master of the Heavenly Law.”

”We just escaped from the desert, right? Are they heading back in?” The mussel could not believe it.

Long Siye sighed. ”This time, we have the Master of the Heavenly Law with us.”

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In the desert, the crazy heat was long gone. It was more like a desolate area of ice. The turbulent sands were all frozen into odd shapes and sizes. The air was piercing cold as if every droplet of water vapor in the air was already turned into tiny bits of ice.

Nevertheless, the spirits were still out to haunt them. Everywhere they looked was filled with eerie and ghostly figures. It was a rather appalling sight. These ghosts traveled at inconsistent paces and hid among the ice statue while waiting for an opportunity to ambush their prey.

Overall, it was a very strange and frightening place. Gu Xijiu could tell that the extreme cold was enough to pierce through any ordinary person's flesh and bones, but she was unaffected, for there was a steady flow of heat circulating in her body.

Di Fuyi took her hand in a steady grasp and transferred some heat into her body to keep her warm even at the extremely low temperature of the place. The two had not interacted much ever since he recalled his identity.

Gu Xijiu was only standing next to him, but he never even looked at her; he did not even utter a word despite their new surrounding. To be fair, there was no time for small talk, so Gu Xijiu did not blame Di Fuyi for their lack of interaction.

Nonetheless, she could tell that he was no longer the same man. Although he still looked the same, his aura and temperament had completely changed. Standing next to him made her feel insignificant. Naturally, she could feel the distance between them.

Before he went into the desert, he finally talked to her for the first time. ”Wait for me here,” he said. He then leaped and disappeared into the storms. However, instead of waiting, Gu Xijiu chose to follow him.

There was nothing much to deal with on the outside of the desert, so she wanted to stay by his side, even in times of great danger. She knew that the demon was not going to be easy to deal with.

The desert was unexpectedly cold to the point where she almost became frozen. Luckily, Di Fuyi showed up in time to give her warmth. ”Why didn't you listen to me?”

He sounded a little helpless about her stubbornness. At least, the way he spoke to her was still the same.

”I was worried about your safety since you are in the desert alone,” Gu Xijiu replied calmly.

She did not want Di Fuyi to perish together with the demon and refused to see him getting immortalized again. The wait was too long for her to take.